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Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, has announced its Fall graduating class and students achieving the Dean’s List for the 2022 fall semester, with several students from Nazareth and Dimmitt making the list.

The South Plains – District 2 4-H has recently been highlighting it ambassadors, with Spencer Acker of Castro County 4-H the center of that recognition recently. He is among and working with the 32 high school age STEM Ambassadors and six Collegiate STEM Ambassadors who are returning to help lead and guide.

Several laws passed in the 2021 Texas legislative sessions laws took effect Jan. 1, including a revision to how property taxes are collected, an expansion of the judicial branch and an amendment to pollution standards.

Strong harvest-time commodity prices pushed farmer confidence to its highest level in 16 months, said a Purdue University poll of large operators released on Tuesday. The abrupt 24-point climb in the Ag Economy Barometer “was motivated by producers’ stronger perception of current financial conditions on their farms,” said agricultural economists James Mintert and Michael Langemeier.